47 woven samples mounted on paper. some include drafts, some are experiments in dying. Most are the project of her masters thesis at Kansas University under Evelyn McGraw. Some are experiments done while on Fulbright to Landeskunstsehule in Hamburg, Germany....View Full Record

fragment, woven

00.26.2a-b

Two blanket fragments. Camel color and orange-red. Intersecting stripes. Hem on one edge of (A) is blanket stitched in red thread. Twill, double weave.
Note on catalog card by Sonja Whal says "there may be fragments cut of the same blanket in the collection."
Note on catalog card also says "note dark blue woolen stitches @ seam", but we did not see any stitches on 4/1/2010. Perhaps they meant object 00.26.3.
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Sample, woven

01.5.20

Four small rug samples - black and white with geometric designs, some have brown and grey also....View Full Record

Sampler

03.1.110a-d

Four panels of color gamp. Each panel arranged in four vertical rows of squares of color weft inlay in Theo Moorman technique. Each panel shows variations in tone tint of one predominant color, eg. yellow. Occasional metallic threads included.
Background for all panels is white and yellow pearl cotton and cotton boucle in warp and weft with cotton threads as weft binding threads. All with two selvedges and two fringed ends....View Full Record

Dress

05.3.1

Yellow and white sheath dress in Honeycomb weave. Warp is four ply cotton floss and shiny white boucle possibly rayon. Dress has train with extremely long fringe....View Full Record

Sample

85.3.101-199

Fabric Samples - 85.3.101 to 85.3.199 are almost all small fabric samples tacked to 8x10" cards. They are all numbered individually and have catalog cards in card file in curator's office, though data on cards is sparse. Many numbers have multiple swatches within each number (a, b, c, etc.) Larger samples have been entered into this database individually. All have been photographed. The following numbers from this series are not in drawer C-10:
85.3.113
85.3.130
85.3.133
85.3.136
85.3.141
85.3.150
85.3.160
85.3.161
85.3.162
85.3.175
85.3.181
85.3.193
85.3.196
85.3.197
85.3.198...View Full Record

Sample

85.3.169

Fabric Samples (10) - blue and white with novelty yarn. Twill weave and plain weave. One sample is on an 8 x 10" card, the other nine are not....View Full Record

Fabric samples - linen and ramie furnishing fabrics, probably for casement; 14 are in Drawer C-7 and are striped, though the catalog card says there are 22 total and some are solid. Samples are individually tagged, but there is a duplicate number, F2.
Cassino, Plain weave....View Full Record